Stepping Up the Ante

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This Friday, 25 March, the protesters have decided to march en masse upon the presidential palaces in all parts of the country. They will go armed with nothing but courage and steadfastness to the aim of deposing the President and his men. This day is being labelled "The Day of Creeping".

It is not likely that the president will welcome them openly, and all the palaces are now guarded with armoured vehicles and troops serving in the units commanded by and loyal to the sons of the President and his brothers.

Word from the protest scene is that the people are confident and unafraid of what might happen to them during this protest action. One protester intending to participate in the march said that he is not afraid to be killed because life without hope and future is like being dead anyway so he has nothing to lose in trying to change the situation even if it results in his death because he will be shaheed insha Allah and the people who remain can benefit from his actions, or he can survive and enjoy the victory. Surat al-Anfal 15-16 was then quoted:

“O you who believe! When you meet those who disbelieve in a battlefield, never turn your backs to them, and whoever turns his back to them on such a day unless it be a war strategy, or a retreat to a group (of your own for reinforcement), he indeed has drawn upon himself anger from Allah and his abode is Hell, and worst indeed is that destination.”

This upgrading in protest action, confidence and resoluteness could end in a number of ways.

1.       Troops guarding the palaces open fire and many protesters are killed but those not killed keep marching forward, their numbers being too many for the troops to resist and the people will take the palace.

2.       Troops guarding the palaces will open fire and then the defected army will decide to react in defence of the protesters and this will lead to the start of armed conflict between the two armies all over Yemen.

3.       Saleh will step down before Friday and mass march of protesters will be averted.

4.       Troops guarding the palaces will not defend and protesters will take the palaces unchallenged.

5.       The fifth is too ugly, and I dare not speak it, may Allah protect us from such carnage.

This is a very unusual Jihad, the unarmed Jihad, a very strange thing to behold in a land where almost everyone, young and old has a gun and often use it as a tool of justice in the case of disputes.

Sadly, a large portion of they youth reject free and fair Islamic rule feeling that the leaders will be harsh and everything will become haram. Some in their disgruntlement even uttered words of kufr. I cannot blame them for their dislike of the Islamic leaders in the country as they have become disconnected with the people.

The youth see the lives of the disbelievers as desirable and wish to copy them on that path. Having a good life with all the services and comforts in it is not haram but choosing the path of the disbelievers will only lead to further destruction of the Deen and the Ummah. We will see the result of our deeds on the Day of Recompense.

We ask Allah to make clean the intentions of those participating in this action and remind them that death in the cause of anything other than for the sake of Allah will not be accepted by Him. So don’t waste your opportunity to be Shaheed in His Sake and enjoy the rewards of the Shuhada’.

Allah protect the shabab al-Thawra and grant victory and true guidance upon the Straight Path. Amin